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Early Sunday morning, June 23, 2024, Los Noticieristas, Luz Noticias, and Ríodoce information websites primarily based out of Sinaloa reported a heavy armed confrontation within the small group of Sanchez Celis syndicate of El Dorado, Sinaloa. The armed clashes began at about 5am on varied movies printed heavy caliber gun sounds may very well be heard and as extra information stories got here in, it was confirmed that Mexican Navy Particular Forces have been conducting a raid towards an organized crime chief. That crime determine was ‘El Chore,’ a prison chief and member of ‘Los Chapitos’ or ‘Los Menores’ faction of Sinaloa Cartel.
Preliminary stories alleged the deaths of Raul Carrasco Lechuga Aka “El Chore” together with six to seven gunmen, however data couldn’t be verified as our bodies wanted to be recognized. On Monday June 24, 2024, Los Noticieristas confirmed the loss of life of El Chore alongside six others so a complete of seven deaths.
El Chore was described in quite a few narco-ballads by Panchito Arredondo as beginning his prison profession at a really younger age carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and shifting up by means of the ranks. Previously working as an enforcer for ‘Los Damaso’, however when the warfare erupted between Los Chapitos and Los Damaso in 2017, El Chore opted to hitch Los Chapitos. El Chore was given the El Dorado plaza after Los Damaso have been worn out within the warfare, which was a key plaza and base of operations for Los Damaso as most of their relations lived there.
The Interview
Throughout an interview with information publication Los Noticieristas, a lady named Cecilia would state she acquired a cellphone name round 5:00 AM from her son, a 17 yr previous named Omar, asking her to select him up from work as a confrontation with safety forces had erupted. When requested what he was doing there Cecilia claimed Omar was at work tasked to wash trailers for an unknown firm together with two different minors, a 12 yr previous and a 11 yr previous who can also be believed to of been working alongside Omar, stating they have been screaming as gunfire rung within the background till the decision dropped.
When lastly reaching the realm to examine on her son and the others Cecilia states she was prevented from coming into by safety forces who refused to reveal the standing of these inside, as a substitute responding by pointing their riles at Cecilia and telling to go away, solely studying the situations of these concerned by a toddler who managed to flee the scene, the unidentified little one would declare that they had been shot at whereas escaping however that Omar and the others are nonetheless there.
A translation is as follows:
(00:01) Ernesto Martínezc: «Are you able to inform us what occurred right here?»
(00:03) Cecilia: «My son known as me at round 5 within the morning, calling me crying and screaming to select him up as a result of there was a confrontation…»
(00:12) Cecilia: «At 5 within the morning.»
(00:14) Cecilia: «He is inside there, he is a minor and there is different minors in there…»
(00:19) Ernesto Martínez: «How previous is he?»
(00:20) Cecilia: «He is seventeen, there’s one which’s twelve and I am undecided if there’s one other one in every of 11 (years previous).»
(00:24) Cecilia: «Omar»
(00:27) Cecilia: «Cleansing the trailers.»
(00:28) Ernesto Martínez: «In the place?»
(00:29) Cecilia: «a yard of trailers.»
Unintelligible
(00:34) Cecilia: «Sure the trailers.»
(00:35) Ernesto Martínez: «Do they belong to an organization?»
(00:38) Ernesto Martínez: «Who are you aware continues to be there?»
(00:41) Cecilia: «Simply the (drivers) they’re the one ones who keep there, they go away their trailers and relaxation.»
(00:46) Cecilia: «At 5 (within the morning).»
(00:46) Ernesto Martínez: «At 5, and what did he inform you?»
(00:48) Cecilia: «To come back choose him up as a result of the Authorities got here and commenced taking pictures…, he screamed and screamed saying «mother do not go away me right here», and I requested what occurred however he would not reply, he and the opposite youngsters would simply scream whereas (gunshots) have been heard…»
(01:08) Cecilia: «We have been on our approach, when he known as the shootout already erupted…»
Unintelligible
(01:15) Cecilia: «He known as round 5.»
(01:17) Cecilia: «I got here right here.»
(01:19) Cecilia: «No…»
(01:22) Cecilia: «Sure, I known as however he would not reply.»
(01:26) Cecilia: «(Nothing) they would not let me enter, I informed them I simply wish to examine and ensure they’re okay however they would not get close to, they’d level their rifles at us and inform us to go away.»
(01:35) Ernesto Martínez: «And what did they are saying? They would not inform you if there was anybody injured or….»
(01:36) Cecilia: «No they’d simply say that they do not know and that it would not correspond to them, a child who was working by as a result of he managed to flee…»
(01:45) Cecilia: «Its somewhat child as there have been youngsters from 10 to 11 years previous right here cleansing the trailers…He stated he was shot at whereas fleeing, (saying) «they shot at me, they shot at me, the remainder are nonetheless inside»….»
(02:12) Cecilia: «I do not know, I attempted known as him however he would not reply…»
(02:15) Cecilia: «Sure.»
(02:16) Ernesto Martínez: «He took shelter (someplace).»
(02:17) Cecilia: «I consider so, out of concern I do not know.»
(02:20) Cecilia: «No.»
(02:21) Ernesto Martínez: «And he additionally labored there?»
(0:22) Cecilia: *Nods Sure*
(02:23) Ernesto Martínez: «Proper now they have not informed you something? What’s going to you do? Have you ever talked to Human Proper (Organizations)?»
(02:26) Cecilia: «Unintelligible…However they would not reply, we simply need them to allow us to enter and examine.»
(02:31) Ernesto Martínez: «Not a single official has spoken with you?»
(02:32) Cecilia: «No no one, no one.»
(02:33) Unintelligible
(02:35) Cecilia: «Sure.»
(02:39) Cecilia: «Properly to allow us to inside to examine on them.»
(02:41) Ernesto Martínez: «However if you cannot enter the realm as a result of it has been secured, what is going to you ask (as a substitute)?»
(02:47) Cecilia: «We’ll nonetheless go inside, in the event that they wish to do one thing towards us then oh effectively, our kids are in there and we’ll do no matter we will, I already informed them I’ll wait if not I am going inside….»
(02:57) Unknown: «What number of others are along with your son in there?»
(03:00) Cecilia: «4 youngsters are those who are available to work, and there is the drivers…»
(03:07) Cecilia: «Sure.»
(03:08) Cecilia: «Over there.»
(03:10) Ernesto Martínez: «It is there?»
(03:10) Cecilia: (Sure) it is there.
(03:13) Cecilia: «Excuse me?»
(03:14) Cecilia: «No.»
(03:17) Ernesto Martínez: «Did any of their ambulances are available? Or something?»
(03:20) Cecilia: «No.»
(03:22) Ernesto Martínez: «By no means?»
(03:22) Cecilia: «…A few of them went in and commenced filling their automobiles with gasoline and diesel, taking suitcases that have been inside, they simply went in to steal. They’ll steal no matter we simply wish to go in and ensure our coworkers are good.»
(03:39) Cecilia: «Sánchez Celis.»
(03:41) Ernesto Martínez: The city of Sánchez Celis.
(03:44) Ernesto Martínez: «Thanks very a lot, are you able to inform me your title.»
(03:46) Cecilia: «Cecilia.»
(03:47) Unknown: «Did your son inform you if he was…»
The Authorities Pronounces the Names of the Deceased
On June 24, 2024, the federal government introduced the identities of the deceased. The lads killed have been:
Raúl Alberto Carrasco Lechuga, alias “El Chore”
Omar Joaquín García Carrasco, aliases “Omarcito” and “Omarcillo”
Juan Enrique Aragón Niebla
Manuel Antonio Díaz Osuna
Emmanuel Guevara Esparza
Oscar López Silva, alias “El Chinito”
A person generally known as “El Galleta”.
Social media was quickly flooded with photographs of the wake and funeral ceremonies being held for the cartel figures who had died. Images present that El Chore and Omarcito seem to have had a joint wake.
Cecilia’s Son Was a Cartel Member
Cecilia’s son Omar Garcia Carrasco, who she claimed merely labored washing down tractor trailers, was a cartel member recognized by the aliases “Omarcito” and “Omarcillo”.
He posed on social media with a firearm fitted with a drum journal, standing in entrance of a statue of Santa Muerte. He’s seen carrying 4 radios within the picture proven above.
The Damning Fb Put up by Cecilia’s Daughter
One in all Cecilia Carrasco’s daughters made a Fb submit with a photograph of Omar. Within the submit she mourns the lack of her brother and her “uncle”. This presumably refers to Raúl Carrasco Lechuga, prison alias “El Chore”, primarily based on the final names of the deceased.
Which means that her mom Cecilia is the sister of not solely Raúl Carrasco Lechuga, alias “El Chore”, however she can also be the sister of Chore’s well-known cartel determine brothers, like:
Jesus Manuel Carrasco Lechuga, alias “El Pato”
Unknown Carrasco Lechuga, alias “El Chivo”
In addition to having a cousin named Jose Federico Lechuga Franco who’s a Sinaloa Cartel member.
Along with Omar, Cecilia’s different son Carlos Garcia Carrasco seems to be concerned within the cartel as effectively primarily based on social media images.
El Pato was a Sinaloa Cartel determine that’s best-known for a video wherein he approaches a stolen navy pickup truck pushed by CDS hitmen. The footage was allegedly filmed throughout the chaos of Ovidio Guzman’s 2019 arrest.
El Pato in Culiacanazo
On October 17, 2019, Mexican authorities launched a raid at a house in Tres Rios, Culiacan, which captured Ovidio Guzman Lopez. The Secretariat of Safety and Civilian Safety at first claimed that Ovidio was captured as a result of occur stance, later, nevertheless, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that the troopers have been despatched to the house as a result of an arrest warrant for Ovidio.
Whereas Ovidio was captured, Sinaloa Cartel hitmen started a public marketing campaign of violence that meant to not solely stop Ovidio from being taken to Mexico Metropolis by federal forces, however to hurt authorities personnel and successfully take the civilian inhabitants hostage.
Movies of El Pato and the stolen navy autos, in addition to clips of hitmen aiming 50 cals, turned emblematic of the violence that the Sinaloa Cartel was keen to inflict on the inhabitants of Culiacan.
The following day, on October 18, 2019, President Lopez Obrador introduced that “his safety cupboard made the choice to launch (Ovidio) Guzmán from custody and that (he) supported their determination.”
The President stated the “cupboard made the choice in response to the menace to the lives of civilians and of the troopers concerned within the operation.”
The Sinaloa Cartel’s response appeared to have been efficient. The day of Ovidio’s seize and the following outbreak of violence is usually known as “Culiacanazo”.
Cecilia’s Brothers
Pato’s household appeared to be well-aware of his alias. In a video posted by “ivonnecarrasco” on Tiktok, Pato could be seen blowing out a birthday candle, being sung to by his household, surrounded by duck (which is “pato”) plushies.
El Pato, regardless of his well-known act of violence, appeared to satisfy a non-violent finish. Just a few years in the past he died as a result of health-related points.
Social media posts exhibits a big tribute mural painted of Pato and presumably two of his favourite autos, which seem like restored early Eighties-era Ford pickup vans – a method which is favored by Sinaloa rancheros.
Cecilia has posted a lot of tributes to her brother Pato on social media.
A few of these tributes are stills from the well-known Culiacanzo video. This demonstrates that Cecilia was not solely conscious of Pato’s cartel involvement, but additionally unashamed of his participation within the violence of Culiacanazo.
Cecilia’s brother El Chore was a widely known Sinaloa Cartel determine who started his profession working underneath Dámaso López Núñez, alias “El Licenciado”, and his son Dámaso López Serrano, alias “Mini Lic”.
El Chore and his brother El Chivo later started working extra straight for the Guzman household, working primarily close to Eldorado, Sinaloa.
Chore was rumored to be considerably of a hothead. He allegedly carried out a kidnapping which upset members of the Sinaloa Cartel – Mayo faction and it earned him the ire of Mayito Flaco.
A Frequent Tactic
Cecilia Carrasco seems to have withheld necessary and related data when she offered her son, a gun-carrying Sinaloa Cartel member, to the media as if he was merely a automobile washer.
She additionally solely talked about worrying for the security of her son, which is attention-grabbing as a result of her brother, El Chore, was already rumored to have been killed within the taking pictures and but she made no appeals for data on his security.
Perhaps her concern for Chore merely slipped her thoughts. Or possibly she was involved that Chore’s status as a excessive degree Sinaloa Cartel member would possibly make her attraction much less sympathetic.
Having civilians specific faux-outrage over the remedy of their kin by authorities forces as a strategy to stress regulation enforcement to launch cartel members just isn’t a brand new or novel tactic. It is a observe that’s inspired and generally paid for by cartel teams themselves.
Take for instance the 2014 arrest of the Gil Acosta brothers, recognized subordinates of Sinaloa Cartel’s Ivan Guzman.
Relations of the brothers spoke to the media, claiming the navy had unfairly kidnapped them.
Related ways can be seen in Michoacan, when civilians are “inspired” to storm navy bases when native cartel leaders are arrested underneath the pretense of them ‘rescuing’ somebody from the navy.
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon have an identical drawback with particular “human rights teams” that appear to solely advocate for the rights of males alleged to be cartel members.
Sources: Los Noticieristas, NACLA , CNN , Linea Directa Portal